Antipsychotic

These medications are antipsychotics, for the psychotic symptoms, and either antidepressants or lithium for the other mood symptoms. Antipsychotics help with the paranoia, delusions and hallucinations. Antidepressants help with the feelings of worthlessness, hopelessness, sleep trouble, and trouble with concentration. Psychotherapy is…

Haloperidol and Quetiapine In modern medicine, there are two main groups of antipsychotic medicine such as, conventional antipsychotics (1st generation antipsychotics) and atypical antipsychotics (2nd generation antipsychotics). Haloperidol is a conventional antipsychotic which is used to treat schizophrenia and some other forms of psychosis. Haloperidol was developed in the late 1950s by company Janssen, and approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in 1967. (David A. Williams )…

Psychotic Behavior and Effects on Children Review of literature indicates that Henry from the film The Good Son (1993) suffers from psychotic behaviors. Henry attempted to kill his cousin Mark, sister Connie, and his mother Susan. Carl Jung’s archetypes were apparent throughout the film. Henry was the Shadow the evil part that is usually locked away. Susan is the Great Mother the protector, the compassionate one, ands the one who does kind things. Wallace was the Spiritual Father he was the…

Antipsychotic Medications and the Treatment of Psychotic Disorders Since 10,000 B.C. the presence of psychosis has been recognized and treated, using numerous tormenting practices and inhumane interventions. However, it was not until the early 19th century did society classify psychosis as a mental health disorder, instead of labeling it as a demonic possession and began using Asylums, “The Whirling Chair/Bed,” and Benjamin Rush’s “Tranquilizing Chair,” to treat psychotic patients. As society…

Schizophrenia is undoubtedly one of the utmost frightening severe brain disorders of all time. Nevertheless, there is an abundance of informative books and short stories to help individuals who suffer from this terrifying disorder. For example, while searching through the bowels of the internet, there was a narrative published by a female named Margaret Taylor titled My Experience of Paranoid Schizophrenia. In this short story she states how she would be at work and would hear abusive voices…

medicine drastically reduces hallucinations in people with schizophrenia (Mueser and Gingerich 145). Antipsychotics such as chlorpromazine can dramatically reduce the most prominent psychotic symptoms of schizophrenia (hallucinations, delusions, bizarre behavior, and odd speech) but more modestly reduce the negative symptoms (poverty of speech, apathy, and difficulty concentrating). Antipsychotic medications can take rapid effect, sometimes producing noticeable changes in the first few hours,…

Chapter 3.1 – What Causes Schizophrenia? We can never get too much research for our production project since we’re trying to teach Schizophrenia in an artistic, abstract way. So if we are trying to teach it, we must know everything there is to know about it, like the cause. However, even now the cause of Schizophrenia is unclear. The NHS website states that ‘Most experts believe the condition is caused by combination of genetic and environmental factors’. Because of this lone reason we decided…

non-compliance is especially important in schizophrenic patients as this population have a lower rate of complete medication adherence compared to patients with other mental health diagnosis. For persons with schizophrenia, rates of adherence to antipsychotic medications range from 11% to 80% with average rates of 50%, depending on measures used and definitions of adherence (Beebe, Smith, Crye, Addonizio, Strunk, Martin, & Posche, 2008). Total medication adherence is important in treating…

In addition to the findings shown below, they found no significant correlation between medication dose, in terms of chlorpromazine equivalents, and ERG measures. Of the 9 schizophrenic patients, one patient had been free of antipsychotic medication for over 6 months. In this patient, the dark adapted a-wave amplitude was comparable to the schizophrenic group (217.2 versus 215.1), the light adapted a-wave amplitude was intermediate between the groups (50.7 versus 40.0 in SZ and…

Marina Joyce is a British Youtuber who got a lot of attention online because peopled believed she was kidnapped. In many of her videos you can see that something is not right, she is either zoning out with a blank stare on her face, she is unable to explain herself in a manner that makes sense, and in one of her videos it seems like she afraid and asking for help. Many people believed she was kidnapped but as the days went on another Youtuber, who is a nurse at a mental health clinic, gave an…